Word: guys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Method mewling. By the time Ribisi has his big shouting scene with Epps ("Dude, your cover's been blown. Your cover's been blown. You cover has been blown!"), you realize these kids just aren't having any fun playing cops. But hang around to see fat bad guy Michael Lerner waltzing with Epps to My Favorite Things. That's when it becomes clear that Silver thinks he's gone beyond lousy entertainment into David Lynch-style Art Deco-dence...
...figured I'd present the whole thing as a learning opportunity. "Now what?" asked my wife suspiciously, when the FedEx guy unloaded a special Saturday delivery from Sony Electronics. "A Digital8 HandyCam Camcorder," I said evenly. "Reviewing it for the column." She then asked what "Digital8" is. Yessssss...
...movie, and some sap is winging out of the theater with a pulsing beeper. Go to the beach, and some self-important fool is on a cellular--probably calling the guy in the movie theater. No one under 30 can walk down the street without a stereo strapped to his head. What ever happened to the moment of quiet reflection and the slothful joy of idle thought? Does anyone remember sitting on a porch and watching the world slide...
...clearing about 50 yards away. He said he was as surprised as I was to be in this chaotic situation. He had got the call from the President just as he was heading out the door for a golf outing. I'll never forget it: here was the guy in charge--a key player in a historic drama--bothering to take the time to chat, to see how I was doing. Before he finished this, the first of several visits, he shared a quote from Mark Twain with me: "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence...
HOWARD MILSTEIN just wants a place at the table. But the guys who own the furniture keep moving it. Milstein, a billionaire real estate developer, and his partners have offered $800 million to buy the National Football League's Washington Redskins franchise. The bid was not only $200 million better than anyone else's but would be the largest price ever for a North American sports team. Still, the NFL owners don't seem to want Milstein's money. Although Milstein says he has restructured the financing to meet league guidelines, sources say the offer is too highly leveraged...